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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,413
    Please Sir ! another one i absolutely loved growing up , strange how i didnt really notice that the Kids were 30 year olds pretending to be 15 ! . A really hard watch now .    
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,376
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I think TV companies have lost the plot. ITV is the worst IMO. Most of their programmes are an excuse to get people who can't afford it to gamble. 
    How so?
  • Coveredendchoir
    Coveredendchoir Posts: 270
    Not sure if this programme has been mentioned… but I convinced my wife to finally watch Spaced with me… which was going well until Mike & Tim got a bit too excited about going upstairs to the teenagers party..(the Amber character was a school kid) seemed a bit weird and the TV went off pretty quickly.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,805
    fadgadget said:
    Please Sir ! another one i absolutely loved growing up , strange how i didnt really notice that the Kids were 30 year olds pretending to be 15 ! . A really hard watch now .    
    Th film’s still quite funny in places 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,364
    charltonkeston said:
    fadgadget said:
    On The Buses , the uk used to stop for this programme back in the 70,s . Barely raises a chuckle now   
    Its so bad its almost worth a watch. As young kid the 70s I like most of my friends loved it. Now its nigh impossible to raise a chuckle at any point. But I think Stan gave all men confidence, if he could "pull a bird" with those looks, so could anyone. Cringing thinking about the whole cast and story lines now. 
    I think having just 3 channels back then it was an easy thing to dish up crap comedies endlessly to a captive market. 
    I get you r point, but think you're being a tad unfair on Reg there. For a fifty year old Stan looked alright. It was Jack that had looks a mother would struggle to love.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,364
    ... and who'd have imagined that Anna Karen once worked as a stripper?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,039
    V - watched a rerun a couple of years ago and it’s bloody awful . 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,287
    Bedsaddick said:
    V - watched a rerun a couple of years ago and it’s bloody awful . 
    Think I watched it the same time as you. It's bad but still kinda liked it. 
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 986
    Not a tv show but i saw Austin Powers a few weeks back which i loved as a kid and couldnt get over how unfunny it all seems now.
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,746
    Dempsey & Makepeace 

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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,380
    Was that with Glynis Barber? Very nice.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,294
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Dempsey & Makepeace 
    Worked for a transport company by the Thames (TankfeightLtd) and they use our warehouse to film in, 
    We were allowed to watch a car chase that ended with a Rover smashing into a pile of boxes and a stunt man jumping out of the way. 

    They had a mobile canteen that served them food, so we all pile up and ask for some grub and got told to FO.  The little yank was proper flash, and my mate mistook the blonde girl for Joanna Lumley.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,225
    usetobunkin said:
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Dempsey & Makepeace 
    Worked for a transport company by the Thames (TankfeightLtd) and they use our warehouse to film in, 
    We were allowed to watch a car chase that ended with a Rover smashing into a pile of boxes and a stunt man jumping out of the way. 

    They had a mobile canteen that served them food, so we all pile up and ask for some grub and got told to FO.  The little yank was proper flash, and my mate mistook the blonde girl for Joanna Lumley.
    Plenty of scenes around Charlton & Woolwich.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,854
    edited 7:50PM
    I can enjoy On the buses with a sense of nostalgia but comedy changes. I think that whilst comedies like this are of course exagerations, it does give a sense of the times. I think the better ones do stand up like Steptoe and Son and Rising Damp for instance.

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